Necktie and collar.



' J. D. McOSKER.

NECKTIE AND COLLAR.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 19, 1917.

Patented Aug. 20, 1918'.

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Application filed September 19, 1917.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, Josnrn D. MoOsxnn, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Brighton, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and Improved Necktie and Collar, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to an imitation knotted four-in-hand tie and a collar especially designed for holding the tie.

The objects of the invention are to make a ready-made four-in-hand tie which, when worn, has the appearance of an ordinary knotted four-in-hand; to provide a simple one-piece form around which the tie may be built, the tie being suitably modified in shape for adaptation to the form; to provide a band of novel shape which forms the front or knot of the tie, and to provide a novel and elfective means of fastening the tie to the collar by providing an attaching member on the back of the tie and an extra buttonhole in the collar through which the attaching means is inserted before the ends of the collar are buttoned to the shirt.

With such objects in View, and others which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention comprises various novel featuresof construction and arrangement of parts which will be set forth with particularity in the following description and claims appended hereto.

In the accompanying drawing, which illustrates certain embodiments of the invention and wherein similar characters of ref erence indicate corresponding parts in all the views,

Figure 1 is a front view of the form on which the tie is built;

Fig. 2 is vertical section thereof;

Fig. 3 is a fragmentary view showing a modified form of attaching member for securing the tie to the collar;

Fig. 1 is a plan view of the form;

Fig. 5 is a plan view of the necktie strip;

Fig. 6 is a plan view of the blank which forms the knotted portion of the tie;

Fig. 7 is a perspective view of the ends of a' collar with the tie applied to one end thereof;

Fig. 8 is a rear perspective view of the finished tie;

9 is a front view of the collar buttoned to show the relation of the extra neclc Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 29, 1918.

Serial No. 192,086.

tie-holding buttonhole to the regular buttonhole;

Fig. 10 is a front view of the collar and ie attached thereto; and

Fig. 11 is a detail sectional view of the collar buttoned to a shirt and of the necktie attached to the collar.

Referring to the drawing, A designates a collar which is of ordinary construction, with the exception that an extra buttonhole 1 is placed in the end 2 in addition to the regular buttonhole 3, the other end 4 of the collar having only a single buttonhole The extra buttonhole 1 is for the purpose of attaching the necktie B to the collar, the necktie having a suitable attaching device to be explained in detail hereinafter. The location of the buttonhole 1 is of special importance, so that the necktie will set in the center between the end edges of the collar, as clearly shown in Fig. 10. From Fig. 9 it will be noted that the middle of the buttonhole 1 is vertically above the outer end of the regular buttonhole 3, and it may be any suitable distance above the regular buttonhole, so that when the necktie is attached to the end 2 of the collar, as shown in Fig. 7, the necktie will not interfere with the buttoning of the collar to the shirt.

The necktie B embodies a metallic or other form 6 made of a sheet of material tapering downwardly and having its side edges curved backwardly; The top of the form has a central upwardly and rearwardly inclined tongue 7 which forms part of the necktie attaching means, the tongue being provided with hinge eyes 8 in which are pivoted the buttoning members or lugs 9 and 10, so shaped that one can lie within the other, as shown in Figs. 1 and 4:, so that the buttoning members can be passed through the button-hole 1 and then they are moved to position approximately transverse to the tongue 7, the member 9 extending upwardly and the member 10 downwardly, as clearly shown in Fig. 2. The tongue 7 is widened in a horizontal direction so that when it engages in the horizontal slot 1 of the collar there will be no tendency of the necktie becoming disarranged, as it cannot pivot on the tongue as a center.

In the modification shown in Fig. 3 the buttoning device 11 on the tongue 7 is Z- shaped and has oppositely extending pivot lugs 12 journaled in the hinge ears 13. With heroes-e this form of attaching means the frame or buttoning device 11 is first disposed in the same plane with the tongue 7, and while in this position the attaching device is placed through the buttonhole in the collar, and after the buttoning member 11 is entirely through the buttonhole it is turned to a posi ion at right-angles to the tongue 'l, and thereby holds the necktie attached to the collar. The tie string 15 shown in Fig. is of such length that when it is doubled it is as long as the regulation fourin-hand tie when the latter is tied. Adjacent the middle of the string or strip is a hole 16 through which extends the tongue form 6, and adjacent the opening i on tl e 16 are marginal notches 17, which insure better lit ar 1 t i with less bulkiness. After the term is applied to the tie latter is doubled over the form 1 in front and the othe part shown in ii and then and back parts of the tie strip are sewed to the form, which latter has apertures 6 for the threads to pass therethrough. The side edges of the folded tie strip are drawn together backwardly of the Knot-forming piece or band 20, Fig. 6 '5; applied around the tie strip and form. the band 20 is made from a piece of material similar to the tie strip, and the marginal edge is folded back after being provided with the necessary notches 21, and then the side edges are folded back on the form along the lines The side edges are stitched together as at Fig. 8, and the top edges are sewed to the part 19 of the tie strip 15. as indicated at 2%, Fig. 8. It will thus be seen that the tie closely approximates in appearance a regu lar four-inhand tie except that a neck and is dispensed with and the tie is secured by an attaching device extending from the rear adjacent the top.

Qrom the connection foregoing description taken in with the accompanying drawing the advantages of the construction and method of operation will be readily understood by those skilled in the art to which the invention appertains, and while l have described the principle of operation, together with the article which I now consider to be the best embodiment thereof, I desire to have it understood that the article shown is merely illustrative and that such changes ay be made when desired as fall within the scope of the appended claims.

Having thus described my invention, l claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. The combination of an imitation fouriii-hand necktie having a rigid tongue extending rcarwardly therefrom and widened in a horizontal direction to fit ina slit in a collar and prevent the necktie from pivoting on the tongue, and means for securing the tongue in position on a collar.

The combination of an imitation four- .in-hand necktie having a rigid tongue eX tending rearwardly therefrom and widened in a horizontal direction to fit in a slit in a collar and prevent the necktie from pivoting on the tongue, and a pivoted buttoning device carried by the rear end of the tongue.

An imitation four-in-hand necktie comprising a sheet metal form tapering down wardly and curved backwardly at its side edges, there being downwardly extending slits in its top edge, and the portion between the slits being bent rcarwardly to form a tongue widened in a horizontal direction, a tie strip folded over the top edge of the form with one portion extending down the front of the latter and another portion extending down the rear, said rear portion of the tie strip having an aperture through which the ton ue extends, a band sewed around the tie strip where the same covers the form and means on the tongue for securing the necktie on a collar.

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